If I wait for someone else to validate my existence, it will mean that I’m shortchanging myself.

Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being.

I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.

Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians.

Wealth is so concentrated that a large segment of society is virtually unaware of its existence.

You are the only person in existence who can use your potential. It is an awesome responsibility.

There's always one sequence in every animated film that's the bane of every animator's existence.

The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.

This is the basis for the joy of love when there is joy; we feel that our existence is justified.

Kitsch excludes everything from its purview which is essentially unacceptable in human existence.

Anxiety comes into existence only when we become identified with small things. And they all pass.

If Providence has created the stars and the planets, man has called the cannonball into existence.

Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.

Is there a mechanism of death, that so mutilates existence no one, gets over it not even the dead?

When I'm riding my bicycle I feel like a Buddhist who is happy just to enjoy his mundane existence

When we talk about GOD, we’re like a school of fish, discussing the possible existence of the sea.

The most important thing for me is the direct observation of nature in its light-filled existence.

Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.

Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.

Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.

Somewhere I heard a victorious "Yes" in answer to my question of the existence of ultimate purpose.

Any child who has lost a parent probably knows every single photograph in existence of that parent.

It is good to be a cynic - it is better to be a contented cat - and it is best not to exist at all.

Most people have stereo vision, so why belittle that very, very important element of our existence?

Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.

For me, art, and especially music, exist to elevate us as far as possible above everyday existence.

You really get tired in one area of your life, and then you start questioning your whole existence.

Between repetition and forgetting, it is a marvel that a new thought ever struggles into existence.

Theories of evolution must provide for the creative acts which brought such theories into existence.

Faith is the final triumph over incongruity, the final assertion of the meaningfulness of existence.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.

As the render is to the building, and the blueprint to the machine, so sport is to social existence.

As human beings, our only sensible scale of values is one based on lessening the agony of existence.

At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.

No person who denies the existence of a supreme being shall hold any office under this Constitution.

Ideology represents the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence.

Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.

To reject the necessity of temples is to reject the necessity of God, religion and earthly existence.

We can fear things into existence. Fear looks into the future and imagines the worst that can happen.

God is a challenge because there is no proof of his existence and therefore the search must continue.

What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?

A fish probably has no means of apprehending the existence of water; it is too deeply immersed in it.

The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.

It's interesting that people throughout the existence of the web have been concerned about monopolies.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Existence is larger than any model that is not itself the exact size of existence (which has no size).

Nothing that can be known has existence in itself. It depends on a knower. The knower is consciousness.

Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.

Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.

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